Description
A first edition, first printing of The Return by Hisham Matar, published by Viking in 2016. A very fine copy signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. In a similarly very fine unclipped wrapper.
Published in 2016, The Return is Hisham Matar’s profoundly moving memoir of exile, family and unresolved loss. In 2012, following Gaddafi’s fall, Matar returned to his native Libya seeking the truth about his father, Jaballa, a prominent political dissident abducted in Cairo in 1990 and imprisoned by the regime. Combining personal investigation with Libya’s troubled history, the book examines enduring hope, absence and filial love. It won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
